Some of these are just filling out my library for books that I've already
read but didn't own and want to re-read (Xenocide and Dune).
The main excuse for the purchases were to pick up the rest of the Daniel
Keys Moran books while they're still in print, to get the other David R.
Palmer novel besides Emergence, and to get a copy of The
Phantom Toolbooth, which I've been wanting to re-read.

I still have my old hardback copy of Phantom Tollbooth (the dust jacket is
gone, though). What's "Dot and the Line" like?

Posted by rone at 2004-06-27 11:22

It's a small hard-cover children's book that was also turned into a cartoon
by Chuck Jones. It has the same sort of sense of humor as The Phantom
Tollbooth, but it's not as long or quite as good.

Posted by eagle at 2004-06-27 12:39

Hey, so i have a bunch of Charles de Lint that i got from a friend:

Spiritwalk
Dreams Underfoot
Trader
Memory & Dream
Jack of Kinrowan
The Little Country
Someplace to be Flying
Moonlight and Vines

So... where should i start? Also, i highly recommend William Gibson's
"Pattern Recognition".

Posted by rone at 2004-07-05 17:00

I haven't read enough to be able to give you a really good suggestion, but
in general he doesn't write series, so it's probably okay to read in pretty
much any order. That being said, I'd tend to follow the order given at:

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/authors/Charles_de_Lint.htm

It looks like you've got a fair chunk of the available Newford stuff, which is very cool.